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Parks, Rosa (1913&#x2014;)
One of the most prominent African American women in history, Rosa Parks is regarded as the person who sparked the twentieth century Civil Rights Movement in the United State...
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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Lee Parks (née McCauley; born 1913) refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a racially segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus. She was arrested and fined bu...
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A person who I consider a hero is Rosa Parks. &nbsp;She lived during the time when our country was filed with hatred, discrimination, and racism, simply because we were not accustom...
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The word no is one of the shortest words in the dictionary, but it changed American history forever. Rosa Parks was always a person who fought for what she believed in and never let anyone ...
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A hero, a hero is a role model, a person who makes you smile. A hero could be Superman, Batman, Spiderman, etc. my hero is my dad. He is a hard worker. If there were an award for hero, the person who ...
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Rosa Parks was born, Rosa Louise McCauley on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama to her parents, James and Leona McCauley. James was a carpenter and Leona was a teacher who always told her to "take ad...
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When I hear the word `racism', what comes to my mind is how people have treated African-Americans over the years. Some people think racism against African-Americans is gone, but those people are wrong...
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It is very important to be true to oneself. Everyone must be proud of who they are, where they come from, and their role in society. Without such diversity, America would not represent what it do...
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